SecureWorld News

AUGUST 18, 2020

The Carnival Corporation, which has canceled cruises for months now as a result of COVID-19, says one of its cruise brands was hit with a ransomware cyberattack. What do we know about the Carnival Cruises ransomware attack? Hackers encrypted some files. Ransomware attacks 2020: what do cybercrminals want?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The impact of ransomware attacks on businesses is twofold. While many equate ransomware with encrypted files and potential ransom payments, the consequences go even further in terms of the costs and requirements of an organization. The Dangers of Ransomware Attacks. By Rajesh Ram, Chief Strategy Officer at Egnyte.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The Pain of Double Extortion Ransomware divya Thu, 02/16/2023 - 06:10 Ransomware perpetrators are adopting more sophisticated attack techniques with much success. Ransomware attacks have become much more dangerous and have evolved beyond basic security defenses and business continuity techniques like next-gen antivirus and backups.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 20, 2022

H-Hotels, a large hospitality chain with 60 hotels across several countries including Germany and Switzerland has announced it has fallen victim to a ransomware attack. The incident, which took place on December 11, is allegedly a double whammy of hijacked devices and data theft…if a ransomware group is telling the truth.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 9, 2022

It is hard to believe that it has already been one year since the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack that forced the U.S. This attack was one of the biggest ransomware ones to date. Attacks on Critical National Infrastructure will continue to rise in 2022 as ransomware gangs show no signs of abating. Mon, 05/09/2022 - 05:40.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The internet is fraught with peril these days, but nothing strikes more fear into users and IT security pros than the threat of ransomware. A ransomware attack is about as bad as a cyber attack can get. Jump to: What is ransomware? How ransomware works. Preventing ransomware. Ransomware attacks and costs.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 11, 2022

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: My Body, My Data Act would lock down reproductive and sexual health data “Free UK visa” offers on WhatsApp are fakes HackerOne insider fired for trying to claim other people’s bounties Update now! Chrome patches ANOTHER zero-day vulnerability Cloud-based malware is on the rise.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Okumu lived through the ransomware attack on the City of Baltimore in 2018, which affected 90% of the municipality’s applications. As the then-director of IT infrastructure for the city, he learned a lot of valuable lessons about defending against and recovering from a ransomware attack. It had started sometime between 4 a.m.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 15, 2023

The real world impact of cybercrime rears its head once more, with word that 14 schools in the UK have been caught out by ransomware. There’s no word if any of the schools affected paid the ransom and had their data leaked anyway, or if the ransomware gang stuck to its word and “only” leaked in cases of non-payment.

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Webroot

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The number of ransomware attacks has increased by 18% , while the worldwide volume of phishing attacks doubled to 500 million in 2022. The best way to weather these challenges is to become a cyber resilient business. If a cyber criminal gets access to emails, they won’t be able to access that sensitive data if it’s encrypted.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 26, 2022

Due to the evolving and growing impact of cybersecurity incidents there are some questions starting to arise about the way that insurance companies deal with the costs that are the results of such incidents. But cyber insurance comes in different flavors and sizes. Merck suffered US$1.4 What was NotPetya again? An act of war?

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Erin: What are some of the biggest cyber threats that businesses face today? Byron: The economic impact of phishing, ransomware, business logic hacking, Business Email Compromise (BEC) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks continues to be devastating. How can companies minimize risks?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Here are a few prime examples of cyber-attacks in the education sector. From December 2021 through January the following year, Bernalillo County was slammed by a ransomware attack that targeted government services. Freshly on the heels of this cyber security nightmare, the Albuquerque school system was breached. Cyber insurance.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 1, 2021

Ransomware has been one of the hottest topics in cybersecurity during the last year. A storm made more severe by the pandemic, with so many employees working remotely, exacerbating the risk of ransomware. However, there are other contributing factors to the rise in ransomware the world witnessed in 2020.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Build a playbook for ransomware response and recovery. And a key part of building out any cybersecurity policy for your local government is to develop an organizational understanding of risk to systems, people, data, and so on. Take cyber insurance , for example. Data encryption for data at rest and in transit.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 21, 2024

Remember, sometimes a little common sense goes a lot further than the fanciest encryption out there. Ransomware is another significant threat, where attackers encrypt an organization's data and demand payment for its release. The key here is implementing smart, affordable cybersecurity strategies that work best for nonprofits.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 8, 2022

Ransomware has now emerged as one of the key reasons to have a DR plan and DR technology in place. With a cyberattack, it’s more than just data that needs protecting—at risk is really the entire physical infrastructure from applications and operating systems down to low-level firmware and BIOS. Disaster Recovery and Ransomware.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 2, 2020

What happened in this K12 ransomware attack. What happened in this ransomware attack? The cybercriminals who deployed the ransomware threatened to publish that confidential data about students and teachers. Which of the ransomware gangs or groups hit K12 Inc and its network in this cyber attack?

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NetSpi Executives

APRIL 27, 2024

Table of Contents What is ransomware? Ransomware trends Ransomware prevention Ransomware detection Ransomware simulation Ransomware security terms How NetSPI can help What is ransomware? Ransomware adversaries hold the data hostage until a victim pays the ransom. How does ransomware work?

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 6, 2023

Ransomware is a type of malicious program, or malware, that encrypts files, documents and images on a computer or server so that users cannot access the data. Ransomware is the most feared cybersecurity threat and with good reason: Its ability to cripple organizations by locking their data is a threat like no other.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

A compounding problem of this complexity is that the responsibility of managing these risks often falls to those with the least capabilities: individuals, small businesses, and local governments. RESOURCE] Listen to the recent SecureWorld podcast episode featuring U.S. Secret Service Assistant Director Jeremy Sheridan.

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Pen Test

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The Surge of Double Extortion Ransomware Attack s Ransomware attacks have become an increasingly severe threat to organizations around the world. The Evolution of Ransomware into Double Extortion Tactics The Basics of Ransomware Ransomware itself has been around for years.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

First, we prepare a plan for the possibility, then when a ransomware attack occurs we execute the plan. To help, we break down the process into the following steps: How to Prepare for Ransomware. Ransomware Response. Simple Ransomware Recovery. How to Prepare for Ransomware. Ransomware Security.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 21, 2020

Now you can add a ransomware attack to the list of disruptions the University is juggling. What are details of the University of Utah ransomware attack? The University had servers encrypted but restored the systems and the access from backups. Hackers and cybercriminals have evolved the way they use ransomware in cyberattacks.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 11, 2021

No Soup For You, Ransomware! Ransomware campaigns such as WannaCry and Petya attacks made this malware type a top threat to all organizations worldwide. Cyber crooks are getting more sophisticated and IT professionals have tough times struggling to detect and block malicious interventions at early stages.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Click here to watch the roundtable and learn about the future of cyber insurance from leading experts. In partnership with Cysurance, BlastWave hosted a roundtable entitled “The Future of Cyber Insurance and MSP Insurability. of Morris Risk Management, John Franzino of Grid Security Inc.,

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ForAllSecure

MAY 30, 2023

Say you’re an organization that’s been hit with ransomware. At what point do you need to bring in a ransomware negotiator? Mark Lance, the VP of DFIR and Threat intelligence for GuidePoint Security, provides The Hacker Mind with stories of ransomware cases he’s handled. The same is true with ransomware.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Today we have a ten minute YouTube expedition into the murky world of ransomware. In the video, "The rise of multi-threat ransomware" (embedded below), I cover a couple of key talking points that always seem to come up in conversation. If you're causing ransomware gangs to shrug and go elsewhere, you're doing OK.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2023

From there, these tools send alerts to security teams if and when risks are identified. Vulnerability management is handled not only by cybersecurity and IT teams but by cross-functional teams that understand how assets are used across the organization.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Shaun Murphy (Freddie Highmore) interrupts his girlfriend Lea Dilallo (Paige Spara), the hospital’s IT director, as she investigates a ransomware attack on the health care facility’s network. Of course, boiling down the intricacies of a hospital ransomware incident into an hour-long drama is no easy task. ABC/Jeff Weddell).

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Cyber attribution and deciphering the extent of state-level tasking is difficult, with blurred lines between state-aligned, state-involved and state-directed increasing the risk of escalation, collateral and misattribution. 4 – Ransomware rushes to the cloud. 3 – Crypto-jacking neglect gets dangerous.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Like a terrible disease epidemic, ransomware infects and destroys any data in its path. Preventing a ransomware infection is much more desirable than having to recover from one. In this post, we will take a look at ransomware trends, costs, targets, and ransomware prevention software. What do these costs include?

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The Security Ledger

OCTOBER 23, 2018

In this episode of the podcast (#117), we go deep on one of the hottest sectors around: cyber insurance. In the first segment, we talk with Thomas Harvey of the firm RMS about the problem of “silent cyber” risk to insurers and how better modeling of cyber incidents is helping to address that threat.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Your level of prevention is determined by how much risk you accept to take on. There are two extremes to prevent cyberattacks: Overly permissive prevention and absolute prevention—and where you fall on that spectrum depends on the level of risk in your organization. Especially ransomware.

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Duo's Security Blog

JULY 6, 2021

As such, they’re implementing requirements for their own agencies to be more secure, while also addressing supply chain cybersecurity risk. Cyber Insurers, regulators and customers will expect these controls to be present, regardless of public or private status. and expected controls for those environments will follow.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 17, 2023

His name is Omar Masri and he's a software engineer and also the founder and CEO of Mamari.io, which helps businesses overcome the cost and complexities of cybersecurity, preventing attacks while meeting compliance and cyber insurance requirements. But actually, the biggest change is actually how risk was assessed in cybersecurity.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 2, 2020

You couldn’t go a week last year without seeing a ransomware headline in the news. Ransomware attacks on businesses skyrocketed 365 percent in 2019, and all signs point to more of the same in 2020. As bad as the ransomware scourge was for businesses, local governments arguably had it worse. What Is Ransomware?

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